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Home Office

Answer

David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many arrestees in (a) Haltemprice and Howden, (b) the East Riding of Yorkshire and (c) the Humberside police authority area tested positive for category A and B drugs in each of the last four quarters for which figures are available. [194981] Caroline Flint: It is not possible to provide figures for the number of individuals testing positive at arrest for Class A or Class B drugs. However, the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 gave the police power to drug test arrestees once they are charged with a trigger offence. Data on the number of individuals testing positive at charge for opiates and/or cocaine and/or crack are available from three drug testing sites in Humberside police force, and are shown in table 1. There is no data available for the areas of Haltemprice, Howden and East Riding of Yorkshire as they are not currently drug testing sites. Table 1: Drug test results for opiates and/or cocaine/crack at Humberside police force--October 2003 to September 2004 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Number of tests attempted Number of positive tests Proportion of tests that were positive (Percentage) October to December 2003 BCU: 446 180 40 Kingston upon Hull January to March 2004 BCU: 579 202 35 Kingston upon Hull April to June 2004 BCU: Kingston 721 205 28 upon Hull, North Lincs, North East Lincs July to September 2004 BCU: 809 246 30 Kingston upon Hull, North Lincs, North East Lincs _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

194981; 426 c888-90W;426 c892-4W

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Arrests Drugs Humberside Misuse

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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